Prototype Images - Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Afterburner
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Mar 31, 2016 at 8:39pm CDT
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Comment by Autobot N
Mar 31, 2016
UW Computron is only getting better and better.
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal
Mar 31, 2016
I want me some Technobots now 
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Comment by Emerje
Mar 31, 2016
Afterburner looks great in bot mode and I love the new G1-style guns, but alt mode looks silly. He should resemble a two-wheeled car like Chromia. I was hoping for a real canopy, but it's just a strange looking windshield that extends into the seat. Anyone riding that would be pretty uncomfortable leaning into all that metal to reach the handles.
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Comment by Hellscream9999
Mar 31, 2016
Definitely feel like I'm gonna have to get the UW technobots, shame, as I really wanted Scrounge and the new feet and hands, sorry hasbro, ya screwed it up - royally 
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Comment by YoungPrime
Mar 31, 2016
Sigh........ There's nothing "tech" about these alt modes.
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Is there a difference between tech and sci fi? Because so far I am seeing some sci fi, especially with scattershot and strafe.
Is it Afterburner that is tipping the scale? He seems to be the one member Hasbro is getting the same way. Though I do wonder if Hasbro will be changing his head as well.
Comment by william-james88
Mar 31, 2016
YoungPrime wrote:Sigh........ There's nothing "tech" about these alt modes.
Is there a difference between tech and sci fi? Because so far I am seeing some sci fi, especially with scattershot and strafe.
Hellscream9999 wrote:Definitely feel like I'm gonna have to get the UW technobots, shame, as I really wanted Scrounge and the new feet and hands, sorry hasbro, ya screwed it up - royally
Is it Afterburner that is tipping the scale? He seems to be the one member Hasbro is getting the same way. Though I do wonder if Hasbro will be changing his head as well.
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Well, there's probably going to be little difference between the afterburners, but the TT computron 'may' have more/better paint apps - a long shot, I know - but the new Scattershot parts, the new combiner head, the new guns, the rook mold, which looks solid (and is based off of a solid figure), over all, it feels like WAY more effort was put into the TT one.
The hasbro one feels slapped together at the last minute; I get the point of the mold re-use was to be safe with the investment, but the line has more than paid for itself already, why couldn't hasbro give us more remolded parts - or wheeljack's figure? I feel like the hands, feet, and Scrounge are their way of saying sorry for being lazy/uninterested in really making him stand out
Comment by Hellscream9999
Mar 31, 2016
william-james88 wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:Definitely feel like I'm gonna have to get the UW technobots, shame, as I really wanted Scrounge and the new feet and hands, sorry hasbro, ya screwed it up - royally
Is it Afterburner that is tipping the scale? He seems to be the one member Hasbro is getting the same way. Though I do wonder if Hasbro will be changing his head as well.
Well, there's probably going to be little difference between the afterburners, but the TT computron 'may' have more/better paint apps - a long shot, I know - but the new Scattershot parts, the new combiner head, the new guns, the rook mold, which looks solid (and is based off of a solid figure), over all, it feels like WAY more effort was put into the TT one.
The hasbro one feels slapped together at the last minute; I get the point of the mold re-use was to be safe with the investment, but the line has more than paid for itself already, why couldn't hasbro give us more remolded parts - or wheeljack's figure? I feel like the hands, feet, and Scrounge are their way of saying sorry for being lazy/uninterested in really making him stand out
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It's probably going to be the paint job that makes it techy not just the remolded parts.
Lets just wait until we see the painted results before going like "It's shit".
Comment by Deadput
Mar 31, 2016
YoungPrime wrote:Sigh........ There's nothing "tech" about these alt modes.
It's probably going to be the paint job that makes it techy not just the remolded parts.
Lets just wait until we see the painted results before going like "It's shit".
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Comment by Sabrblade
Mar 31, 2016
One notable difference between Hasbro's and Takara's Afterburner is that the former will have a translucent green canopy while the latter appears to have a solid opaque canopy and no translucent plastic at all.
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August or October 2016
Comment by fenrir72
Mar 31, 2016
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I want me some Technobots now
August or October 2016
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Sooner. I am impatient. Technobots now please please please
Comment by D-Maximal_Primal
Mar 31, 2016
fenrir72 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I want me some Technobots now
August or October 2016
Sooner. I am impatient. Technobots now please please please
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lol, you were saying that last October
Comment by Hellscream9999
Mar 31, 2016
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:fenrir72 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I want me some Technobots now
August or October 2016
Sooner. I am impatient. Technobots now please please please
lol, you were saying that last October
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And if I don't have technobots by this October there will be hell to pay!
Comment by D-Maximal_Primal
Mar 31, 2016
Hellscream9999 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:fenrir72 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I want me some Technobots now
August or October 2016
Sooner. I am impatient. Technobots now please please please
lol, you were saying that last October
And if I don't have technobots by this October there will be hell to pay!
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Comment by Nemesis Maximo
Mar 31, 2016
I was happy enough to go with Hasbro's Combaticons, as it was quick and easy and there are plenty of awesome Shapeways kits for Blast-Off and Vortex; and to me, the only Combaticon that actually looked better from Takara was Vortex. The Blast-Off from Takara just didn't do it for me, it's just not what I wanted to see when I think of him.
But this Computron...everything so far points to it being the same kind of choice as Hasbro vs Takara Devastator: one is decent, and the other is perfect. The pricing is for the decent one is decent, and the added value of the perfect one makes it a worthy purchase if you can spare some extra cash. The decent one will fill the needs of those who only want to display Combiners, and the perfect one will have all kinds of bells and whistles for man-children (and lady-girls, mustn't forget political correctness).
Either way...Count me in, Takara!!!
But this Computron...everything so far points to it being the same kind of choice as Hasbro vs Takara Devastator: one is decent, and the other is perfect. The pricing is for the decent one is decent, and the added value of the perfect one makes it a worthy purchase if you can spare some extra cash. The decent one will fill the needs of those who only want to display Combiners, and the perfect one will have all kinds of bells and whistles for man-children (and lady-girls, mustn't forget political correctness).
Either way...Count me in, Takara!!!
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Comment by Sabrblade
Mar 31, 2016
So, would this be considered The Hunt for Tech October?D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:fenrir72 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I want me some Technobots now
August or October 2016
Sooner. I am impatient. Technobots now please please please
lol, you were saying that last October
And if I don't have technobots by this October there will be hell to pay!
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Comment by Hellscream9999
Apr 1, 2016
Sabrblade wrote:So, would this be considered The Hunt for Tech October?D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:fenrir72 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I want me some Technobots now
August or October 2016
Sooner. I am impatient. Technobots now please please please
lol, you were saying that last October
And if I don't have technobots by this October there will be hell to pay!
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Bruticus barring delays is on June/July so given how Superion and Menasor was released (the latter on August 2015).
Computicon more or less so be........ware of the path to the "darkside" DMP
Comment by fenrir72
Apr 1, 2016
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:fenrir72 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I want me some Technobots now
August or October 2016
Sooner. I am impatient. Technobots now please please please
Bruticus barring delays is on June/July so given how Superion and Menasor was released (the latter on August 2015).
Computicon more or less so be........ware of the path to the "darkside" DMP
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Comment by Bounti76
Apr 1, 2016
Computron is the only complete combiner that I owned all the pieces of as a kid, so he's one I'm most interested in. My take on Takara Afterburner? He looks good in robot mode, and the weapons are awesome. My biggest issues are with his vehicle mode. The canopy should be up and over the seat; like many have said, Generations Chromia does this perfectly. As it is, Afterburner's altmode looks goofy. The canopy is covering up the handlebars, which, by the way, shouldn't be there. Nor should spokes on his wheels. He just looks like an ordinary Earth motorcycle with an oddly placed canopy/windscreen. A little let down by that. Hopefully we'll see the other Technobots soon.
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I get where your coming from, but at the same time I'm also hoping Yuki-san posts a pic of TFCC Marissa Fairborn riding this Afterburner. But yea, I always saw Afterburner as more of a 2 wheeled tank rather than a standard motorcycle.
Comment by grimdragon2001
Apr 1, 2016
Bounti76 wrote:Computron is the only complete combiner that I owned all the pieces of as a kid, so he's one I'm most interested in. My take on Takara Afterburner? He looks good in robot mode, and the weapons are awesome. My biggest issues are with his vehicle mode. The canopy should be up and over the seat; like many have said, Generations Chromia does this perfectly. As it is, Afterburner's altmode looks goofy. The canopy is covering up the handlebars, which, by the way, shouldn't be there. Nor should spokes on his wheels. He just looks like an ordinary Earth motorcycle with an oddly placed canopy/windscreen. A little let down by that. Hopefully we'll see the other Technobots soon.
I get where your coming from, but at the same time I'm also hoping Yuki-san posts a pic of TFCC Marissa Fairborn riding this Afterburner. But yea, I always saw Afterburner as more of a 2 wheeled tank rather than a standard motorcycle.
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Comment by SureShot18
Apr 1, 2016
UW Technobots looking good! 
I think I've gotta agree either almost everyone here, Takara won this time. I hope Yuki shows nosecone of strafe next. 
However the deco could easily make or break this set for me.
I think I've gotta agree either almost everyone here, Takara won this time. I hope Yuki shows nosecone of strafe next. However the deco could easily make or break this set for me.